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Track List
01) Rebel Heart
02) It's a Shame
03) Fireworks
04) Postcard
05) To Live a Life
06) My Wild Sweet Love
07) Distant Star
08) Ruins
09) Hem of Her Dress
10) Nothing Has to Be True
01) Rebel Heart
02) It's a Shame
03) Fireworks
04) Postcard
05) To Live a Life
06) My Wild Sweet Love
07) Distant Star
08) Ruins
09) Hem of Her Dress
10) Nothing Has to Be True
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2018
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Ruins is the fourth studio album by Swedish indie folk duo First Aid Kit. The album was produced by Tucker Martine and features contributions of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Wilco's Glenn Kotche and Midlake's McKenzie Smith. The album was released on 19 January 2018. The lead single "It's a Shame" was released on 28 September 2017.
After First Aid Kit broke through internationally with their cover of the song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" by Fleet Foxes in 2008 the duo released three albums in six years. In an interview Klara Söderberg said: "We started touring in 2009, and between playing and recording, we never had a break. By 2015, I was kind of spent. I had a hard time expressing, let alone understanding how exhausted I was until I couldn’t do it anymore." Her sister Johanna has had a similar experience and said in the same interview: "It just came to us in different ways, having breakdowns, crying on stage, feeling it was too much ... We decided together we needed a break, and it was really hard for me to do that. I got restless and struggled with the down time, but we both needed that space. We didn’t speak for months. We had to have a divorce before we could write music again."
In August 2015 after the tour of Stay Gold ended they took a break until April 2016. In this period Klara's relationship ended which influenced the record and brought forth the title of the album: "It’s the ruins of a relationship. How sad it is, but also how beautiful it was. That’s all you have left at the end." In 2016 Klara and Johanna reconvened in Los Angeles to write the new album. The first single 'It's a Shame' reflects on the shining sun in LA 'forcing' them to feel happy while in a sad mood. They wrote the album track 'Rebel Heart' in a remote house in Joshua Tree. The song "My Wild Sweet Love" was initially written for the 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars but was rejected. The album closer "Nothing Has to Be True" was written on a Gibson guitar from 1928 bought as gift by Jack White.
In January 2017 the band started recording in Portland, Oregon with producer Tucker Martine. The album features contributions of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Wilco's Glenn Kotche and Midlake's McKenzie Smith. Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs can be heard on the song "Hem of Her Dress" along with Klara and Johanna's mother and brother
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The Swedish sisterly folk duo First Aid Kit have been subtly charming their way into people’s hearts and their latest album is just another great example of their sweetness and song-writing abilities. At this point the band is far from their purely folk roots and it honestly surprises me that it took them this long to finally turn purely pop with acoustic elements, while to a lot of their contemporaries (namely Of Monsters and Men) even a mild debut success was a sign that that switch can take place. So yes, this is already a booming, lavishly produced, popstress record, where any folk is just a matter of element.
However –and this is important– in no way do I mean that this album turned into accessible pop. I mean that it has a much more of that simplistic flare, rather than folksy homeliness First Aid Kit excelled at in the past. The album is still incredibly enjoyable and sweet and the slightly deeper production on the acoustics does bring a lot of personality to it. But what stayed the same (and thankfully so) are the ever so beautiful vocals that were the first and foremost distinguishable trait of First Aid Kit’s gorgeous music. Here they are just as vivacious as one could possibly wish, with that familiar old rusty ring to them.
So with vocals and the sound both staying relatively great, what else is left to discuss" The song writing. The sisters are excellent songwriters. The tunes and melodies combined with the aforementioned professionalism of sound, caressing instrumentation and magnetic vocal delivery, creates an experience to behold. It’s quite simple to explain actually; the tunes alone are so sweet and strike with instant warmth that they might have singlehandedly saved this album, even if it had been failing on every other aspect. So even the fourth time in the studio the band doesn’t lose its steam and keeps on delivering a tonne of greatness. There’s really nothing else to it, it’s just really good.
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Ruins is the fourth studio album by Swedish indie folk duo First Aid Kit. The album was produced by Tucker Martine and features contributions of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Wilco's Glenn Kotche and Midlake's McKenzie Smith. The album was released on 19 January 2018. The lead single "It's a Shame" was released on 28 September 2017.
After First Aid Kit broke through internationally with their cover of the song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" by Fleet Foxes in 2008 the duo released three albums in six years. In an interview Klara Söderberg said: "We started touring in 2009, and between playing and recording, we never had a break. By 2015, I was kind of spent. I had a hard time expressing, let alone understanding how exhausted I was until I couldn’t do it anymore." Her sister Johanna has had a similar experience and said in the same interview: "It just came to us in different ways, having breakdowns, crying on stage, feeling it was too much ... We decided together we needed a break, and it was really hard for me to do that. I got restless and struggled with the down time, but we both needed that space. We didn’t speak for months. We had to have a divorce before we could write music again."
In August 2015 after the tour of Stay Gold ended they took a break until April 2016. In this period Klara's relationship ended which influenced the record and brought forth the title of the album: "It’s the ruins of a relationship. How sad it is, but also how beautiful it was. That’s all you have left at the end." In 2016 Klara and Johanna reconvened in Los Angeles to write the new album. The first single 'It's a Shame' reflects on the shining sun in LA 'forcing' them to feel happy while in a sad mood. They wrote the album track 'Rebel Heart' in a remote house in Joshua Tree. The song "My Wild Sweet Love" was initially written for the 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars but was rejected. The album closer "Nothing Has to Be True" was written on a Gibson guitar from 1928 bought as gift by Jack White.
In January 2017 the band started recording in Portland, Oregon with producer Tucker Martine. The album features contributions of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Wilco's Glenn Kotche and Midlake's McKenzie Smith. Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs can be heard on the song "Hem of Her Dress" along with Klara and Johanna's mother and brother
User Album Review
The Swedish sisterly folk duo First Aid Kit have been subtly charming their way into people’s hearts and their latest album is just another great example of their sweetness and song-writing abilities. At this point the band is far from their purely folk roots and it honestly surprises me that it took them this long to finally turn purely pop with acoustic elements, while to a lot of their contemporaries (namely Of Monsters and Men) even a mild debut success was a sign that that switch can take place. So yes, this is already a booming, lavishly produced, popstress record, where any folk is just a matter of element.
However –and this is important– in no way do I mean that this album turned into accessible pop. I mean that it has a much more of that simplistic flare, rather than folksy homeliness First Aid Kit excelled at in the past. The album is still incredibly enjoyable and sweet and the slightly deeper production on the acoustics does bring a lot of personality to it. But what stayed the same (and thankfully so) are the ever so beautiful vocals that were the first and foremost distinguishable trait of First Aid Kit’s gorgeous music. Here they are just as vivacious as one could possibly wish, with that familiar old rusty ring to them.
So with vocals and the sound both staying relatively great, what else is left to discuss" The song writing. The sisters are excellent songwriters. The tunes and melodies combined with the aforementioned professionalism of sound, caressing instrumentation and magnetic vocal delivery, creates an experience to behold. It’s quite simple to explain actually; the tunes alone are so sweet and strike with instant warmth that they might have singlehandedly saved this album, even if it had been failing on every other aspect. So even the fourth time in the studio the band doesn’t lose its steam and keeps on delivering a tonne of greatness. There’s really nothing else to it, it’s just really good.
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